单词 | english miss |
释义 | > as lemmasEnglish Miss English Miss n. [ < English adj. + miss n.2 (compare miss n.2 4a)] freq. depreciative an unmarried woman (with the implication of primness or prudishness).In quot. 1879 representing French speech. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > prim English Miss1784 1784 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey through Paix Bâs 243 The prepossession in favour of Brussels, as a place of education, has already been and will I fear continue to be unfortunate to many an English miss. 1817 H. C. B. Campbell Jrnl. 3 Sept. in Journey to Florence (1951) 59 Two ugly English Misses very stiff and prim. 1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum II. xxvi. 520 Just the insipid English Mees... You should hear what the French think of the ordinary English girl. 1928 R. H. Mottram (title) The English Miss. 1960 Housewife Oct. 34/2 You are not used to strong drink... The typical little English Miss. 2006 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Dec. e 7 Cameron Diaz..plays a successful Los Angeles businesswoman, while Kate Winslet plays a bookish English miss. < as lemmas |
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